This week we have been enjoying God’s abundance! The upshot of living on donated food is that you sometimes get expensive/elitist/organic/Whole Foods that you would never buy for yourself– this week it was guacamole, dozens of eggs, fresh vegetables and fruits of all kinds… but this week has been about more than food. It’s also been a great week of learning and building relationships.
Last weekend, A. flew standby out to Calgary with his cousin who is a pilot for Air Canada. His cousin is moving from Calgary to Vancouver, so they drove a moving van across the Canadian Rockies together and even stopped for a brief hike in Banff National Park. Meanwhile, I was back in Vancouver discovering the presence of some uninvited company– lice. Remembering my last bout with these parasites of the scalp, I was not amused. But even having head critters turned out to be a strange gift. The hours that I spent having my friend and teammate Rose search through my hair this week resulted in great conversation and a lot of bonding. And, though I have yet to see the Canadian Rockies, the time on my own over the weekend resulted in deepening friendship with some of the people in our neighborhood and our community.
Cruising the Trans-Canadian highway
Learning the alphabet…in Hindi